Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed these suspended Nykredit meeting rooms to boost creativity at the mortgage bank's Copenhagen headquarters. The three cantilevered meeting spaces hang from the third and fifth floors of the 10-story building, and the experience of actually giving a presentation in one of these rooms...
Workers whose environment includes plants and art are 15 percent more productive than those who work in spartan spaces, and the Senescent Desk by Love Hulten blends Mother Nature's touch with minimalist modernity. This untreated wood desk boasts a self-sufficient garden complete with a water tank, fans and...
Open-plan offices may encourage collaboration and improve communication, but they may also create barriers to productivity, according to a piece in today's Wall Street Journal. As of 2010, 68 percent of U.S. workspaces had an open-seating or open-plan design, which ditches secluded offices or traditional cubicles in...
The quest to becoming ridiculously efficient involves navigating tough obstacles like online alerts; to boost your productivity, disable the following digital notifications entirely. While it might initially feel weird not seeing some of these alerts, you'll be amazed at how soon you adjust -- and how much more...
The Evernote productivity app has exploded in popularity, and this InfoGlyphs infographic shares some key features, fun facts and other tidbits. Evernote essentially helps you capture everything -- like files, images, websites, notes and audio -- in a nifty cloud-based account that syncs with your computers and devices seamlessly. You...
An article I read today shared a surprising strategy for making New Year's resolutions, one that also translates to productivity: non-resolutions. We're tempted to make long lists of things to change about ourselves this time of year, but in an interview with Daniel Pink, Stanford lecturer...
